Foraging in the City
When I first started writing about foraging four years ago, it was rare. Now the internet is full of blogs which feature the adventures of modern foragers. Foraging used to be an activity done by...
View ArticleScent of Spring
It happened on January 27 this year: my first whiff of the scent I call the scent of spring. It always stops me in my tracks, it’s so unexpected and so delightful. For many years it haunted me, a...
View ArticleLife in a Doug Fir
My wife and I bought our house for a simple reason: the massive Douglas firs in the backyards. We had been looking at houses for about two months when we came across the tree-rich yard and the...
View ArticleFun with Phenology
This week has been a rich one for the budding phenologist. Just yesterday my faithful assistant, Pepe the Chihuahua, plopped down on the grass in the parkway to bask in the sun. This is a seasonal...
View ArticleThe Season of Pink Rain
I think of this as the season for pink rain, as the petals fall from the trees, polka dot cars and sidewalks and drift in heaps in the gutters. And during this season. I went on an excursion to learn...
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